Every year during Memorial Day weekend, Miami earns its reputation as the East Coast’s most banging club city. More than 300,000 party people, pro athletes, porn stars, socialites, and rappers will once again swarm South Florida’s shores. It’s a loosely organized yet massive celebration of the hip-hop generation, from OGs…
Jacob’s Ladder Makes an Upward Climb
Stockholm-born Axel Willner has, since 2006, braided together two full-length albums from the chromosomes of minimal techno and trance. His latest, Yesterday & Today (ANTI-/Kompakt), further captures aural atmospheric swatches interspersed with snippets of blissful chatter. Yet regardless of this sonic sensibility and his moniker, it comes to light that…
Deep house is making a bit of a comeback in the world of electronic dance music. It boasts roots in so-called U.S. garage and the soulful, gospel-tinged stylings of early house pioneers such as Larry Levan, but the genre has evolved much over the years. It has left its cheesy…
Watching Young Love mastermind Dan Keyes wriggle his hips behind the microphone as he yelps, “If you get the chance/You must dance, dance, dance,” on the R&B-tinged “Find a New Way,” one would never know he used to be a member of an emo band. Keyes, formerly the moping frontman…
The guys of the long-grinding Miami quintet Alukard hail from all over the city but have made it their new mission to bring live rock back to the suburban expanses of Kendall, a couple of years after staple venue Kaffe Krystal’s demise. “They were known for bringing a lot of…
Between his acting career, his unsavory legal troubles, and the simple fact that he seemingly has been around forever, it’s sometimes easy to forget Busta Rhymes is still an active recording artist — especially when you consider that beyond the awesomely Daft Punk-jacking “Touch It,” dude hasn’t really made an…
Everywhere we look — USA Today, iTunes, the CW — we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele’s face. There she is — singing songs from, talking about, and inviting you to download her albums. Voegele has been slowly building buzz over the past couple of years with her personal pop…
Blogs, pop culture talking heads, and seemingly almost everybody else have crapped on Brooke Hogan since the release of her debut album, Undiscovered, in 2006. By now, though, you’ve got to admire the girl’s resilience. As someone raised on punk rock, I never thought I’d defend a pop music/reality starlet…
It looks like Broward is getting another venue. Except this time, there seems to be a serious dedication to promoting local musicians and art! The IWAN concept production facility’s Grand Opening Gallery Event Showcase will take place June 6 with art by 15 artists such as Francesco LoCastro (who painted the entire front of the warehouse…
Since 2001, Oscar G has been Space’s resident DJ and the main reason why patrons still flock to the all-night 11th Street mainstay. Not to mention the fact that he’s done remixes for artists like Madonna and Pet Shop Boys and as one-half of Murk (the other half being Ralph…
We’ve written about Ex-Norwegian a lot lately, so suffice it to say we like their updated version of classic power-pop a la Big Star and company. The Jean Marie, too, remains a local favorite, for good reason. Although they describe themselves on their MySpace page as “garage/rock/soul,” live I’ve thought…
All of your future holiday plans are falling into place: New Year’s is covered with STS9, and now you can get an early start on Halloween with German industrial/goth band KMFDM coming to Respectable Street on October 30. These uber-political (see what I did there?) industrial pioneers have been blasting…
How’s this for advanced notice? STS9 has announced a January 2, 2010 show at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. The electronic rockers, who have a massive following in both the dance circuit and the jam circles, are giving fans plenty of notice for their upcoming show, presumably so you can…
After their widely touted debut Kombustion, locally groomed rock group Soniko prepares to capitalize on the buzz they first generated five years ago with their long awaited sophomore release, Antidoto Parcial. On Kombustion the foursome received heavy acclaim for their churning brand of alt-rock. A vamp on 1990s grunge with…
Deep house is making a comeback in the world of electronic dance music. Much of the deep revival is happening in Germany, and especially in Berlin, a city that epitomizes the world’s most cutting-edge dance music and where producers like Phonique are keeping it real soulful.With roots in the ’90s…
Last year, we declared local singer/songwriter Rachel Goodrich “You’re New Favorite Singer,” then New York Times featured her prominently in a story about Miami’s emerging music scene. And now the Miami Herald reports that Goodrich will be going in the studio in July with L.A. songwriter and producer Greg Wells…
Back in the day when two sweet Sweet brothers linked up with a hot shot guitarist who went by Oz Fox, a revolution in heavy metal was caused to occur. No longer would the genre be forced to walk in sin with Satan worshiping denizens of sleazy back alleys. Stryper…
I mentioned here previously that out of the six artists chosen as finalists for the Florida Grammy Showcase in Orlando last Wednesday, five were from Miami. They were, to recap, Selena Serrano, Spinlight City, Tristan Clopet & the Juice, and finally local favorites Awesome New Republic and ArtOfficial. I said…
Here’s the official video for “Street Fighter Hood” by 4-3 Kingz. The song has a great hook that goes somethin like “Ayuken, Ayuken, Haduken, Haduken, A-tak, A-tak, A-tak tak tak round kick, A-tak tak tak round kick.” The song is great and the video is well produced so look out…
Camp Kill Yourself, aka CKY, is coming to town on July 28 to play the Culture Room. If you’re at all familiar with the CKY videos or have paid attention to the music in Jackass and all its spinoffs, you’ve certainly heard CKY’s music. Deron Miller, Chad Ginsburg, Matt Deis, and Jess…
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, who have been playing together for over 40 years, are back on the road again, promoting nothing but their extensive catalog and undying passion for music. And that passion must be strong for these guys to STILL be touring after all this time…
